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...central corridor with the cosmic pull of a black hole. In a salon-style gallery designed for the appreciation of modern masters, the aesthetic relationship between Aboriginal painting and 20th century abstraction has never seemed closer. Though as Thomas, the former stockman from Turkey Creek, reportedly said of Rothko, "Who's that bugger that paints like...
...good people watching here, too: Providence is home to the liberal bastion (and the I-can-be-funkier-than-you students) of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. RISD boasts a small but fine museum whose eclectic collection includes classical statuary, paintings by Edgar Degas, Mark Rothko and Georgia O'Keeffe, and blown glass by alumnus Dale Chihuly. On the city's south side is an oft-overlooked gem: Johnson & Wales University's food-focused gallery in its culinary college, where recent exhibits celebrated the American diner and the august history of Mr. Potato Head. With...
...died, and in his dreams her spirit flew eastward, encountering the land and its sacred sites. Former stockman Thomas' visions were later recorded on boards and held aloft during a ceremony known as Gurrir Gurrir. These boards grew into a contemporary art movement, made famous by the late Thomas' Rothko-like swathes of ocher necklaced by sun-bursting dots (in 2001, his All That Big Rain Coming Down from Top Side was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for $A786,625, still a record for an Aboriginal work...
...where the water meets the sky, taken all over the world, in all types of weather. From afar, they are pure blocks of contrasting shade. Light on top, dark on the bottom (or sometimes, intriguingly, the reverse), they look at first like little more than a homage to Mark Rothko's color-field painting. But up close, each photo is marvelously detailed. Wisps of clouds are clearly defined and individual wave crests reflect the sun at different but interlacing angles. Displayed together so that the horizons all line up perfectly, the Seascapes are haunting in their simple, minimalist beauty. With...
Ross's jewelry makes a statement, but it's not because of one signature look. Rather, each piece conveys a unique sensibility that draws on Ross's love of contemporary art?Mark Rothko's work is an inspiration?and her travels. A knitted necklace Ross spotted a woman making in Dubrovnik, Croatia, two summers ago, for example, became a gold crochet-like collar...